If the bombing in Madrid Thursday got you thinking again, you are like many other folk in the States. It has been so quite since 9/11 that many of us have become complacent towards terrorist threats to our nation. Despite the changing threat levels and advisories from the Department of Homeland Security, we go on as if it never happened, or if it did, "can't happen again."
Wrong! We remain vulnerable to attack and must not forget it. Some would have the president withhold images of 9/11 from campaign ads. 9/11 defined Bush's first term. To deny it happened, to deny the impact on the Bush presidency, to restrain from reminding folk of that terrible day is no different than those who deny the holocaust and attack those images as inflammatory.
We must remember. The citizens of this country must not forget that with 9/11 the future changed for the US. We cannot go back. We must be aggressive rooting out terrorism, as part of a group of nations or alone, we must do it.
Those who would have us restrain ourselves from this necessary action to protect our borders, our people, would expose us to the threat and be responsible for what could happen.
The thinking people in the US know there will be another attack. The only question is when and how?
There is a website where independent analysts search the web and the news services looking for indicators of terrorist action. If you don't know of the Northeast Intelligence Network, you should. Get to know the site, check it often. Don't be afraid, be aware.
(FYI-Originally this post referred to the bombing in "Barcelona." I may be going there in May and had that on my mind when writing. Thanks for understanding, SM)